A significant experiment in smart city design is being proposed in Toronto. Sidewalk Labs?a Google affiliate?is partnering with Waterfront Toronto to create a mixed-use community on a 12-acre site east of downtown.
There has been political turmoil over the project, amidst concerns about how the project was awarded, the ownership of the data collected by the district?s sensors, and who stands to profit from the intellectual property that the project generates. But in the meanwhile, it?s worth looking at the panoply of groundbreaking architectural innovations that Sidewalk has been developing. ...